Tag Archives: Twitter

Kevin Bacon's not the only one who's six degrees of separation from the other people in his tribe. We're all drawing closer together each day. Here's a story of how my tribe reached out to me from yesterday's story.

This year’s trip I’ll be interviewing subjects for the book I’m writing as well as raising money for breast cancer causes. To those ends, I want to build followers for myself and the upcoming book. Based on last year’s experience, I foresee some specific roles the intern will play, but …

Prompt: What was the best thing you learned about yourself this past year? And how will you apply that lesson going forward? Some 20 years ago now, I watched the Bill Moyers series of interviews with Joseph Campbell, author of many books, including The Power of Myth. What I …

Since I’m an avid BMW motorcyclist now, I came across this video on a forum I belong to. Don’t dismiss it just because you’ve no interest in motorsports — there’s an important takeaway for professionals who want to connect at a deeper level with clients and prospects. Involve = Engage This …

Prompt: Where have you discovered community, online or otherwise, in 2010? What community would you like to join, create or more deeply connect with in 2011? Online community was the bounty of both 2009 and 2010. In 2009 I met my co-author on Twitter and in 2010 I met dozens …

I had the opportunity to debrief the Business Sorority of NC on the vital role that social media played in my 2010 road trip. I used Twitter, Facebook Pages, Vimeo, Flickr, and my travel blog to: raise money for my expenses and the National Breast Cancer Foundation get news stories in …

Like financial professionals, attorneys bear the burden of using good sense and propriety online. Would that everyone bore a similar burden! (but I digress). Friday morning I co-facilitated a continuing education seminar for the Mecklenburg County Bar on social media with Andy Ciordia and Ted Claypoole . The attorneys asked great …

When I overlaid my travel route with the Caribou locations I found significant overlap and thought, "Hey, I can vblog interviews from Caribou shops as part of my road trip!" Here's a video of me with some random Caribou customers in Charlotte, NC